example for new structure in inventory

[Rendanic]

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I reorgnized the directory structure for my inventory in ansible-oracle.

tree inventory/

inventory/
└── orafs
    ├── group_vars
    │   └── all
    ├── hosts
    └── host_vars
        └── oradb03
            └── vars.yml
        └── oradb04
            └── vars.yml

Replace hosts with symbolic links to the files in inventory when a central file for the hosts-inventory is used. The advantage is a clear structure for each 'hosts' in the playbook. Adding the ansible-vault is very easy. Just add a file vault.yml in the directory of vars.yml.

The host_vars and group_vars from '/' could be removed. This makes the whole structure for projects with own configurations much cleaner. Removing the examples is very easy as well.

What do you think about the structure?

[Rendanic]

The example is related to #38.

I could give some examples how I used the vault within the structure.

[oravirt]

Yeah, I like that structure, but I'm not going to change everything to that (at least not now)

For #38, I kept it simpler and just did this:

group_vars/vbox-si-asm/
                    |-- passwords.yml
                    `-- vbox-si-asm.yml 

and it works very well.

I have a bunch of re-factoring that I have to finish, and after that is done I'll look into maybe changing the entire inventory structure. But, I have tested the structure you're using and I like it, so it will probably end up looking like that eventually.

[edperry]

is there a branch for this example?

[Rendanic]

The example inventory will be replaced by a new one in the future. Closing it here.